John Ericson
@johnericson.me
"The Thanksgiving that never happened" would be like a mini-lockdown, bringing back painful repressed pandemic memories. That would be easy to talk about all year long, especially when up to elections next year another Thanksgiving was approaching.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
"The Thanksgiving that never happened" would be like a mini-lockdown, bringing back painful repressed pandemic memories. That would be easy to talk about all year long, especially when up to elections next year another Thanksgiving was approaching.
We could have waited until the GOP ended the filibuster, or gave us what we want. Fantastic outcomes, either way.
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
We could have waited until the GOP ended the filibuster, or gave us what we want. Fantastic outcomes, either way.
*"build back better", but I'll take a "build back backer" too
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
*"build back better", but I'll take a "build back backer" too
God, to think so much of recent history has hinged on the butterfly effects of a nexus of incompetents. It can make one weep.
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
God, to think so much of recent history has hinged on the butterfly effects of a nexus of incompetents. It can make one weep.
Like my whole life it's just been wimping out my the cowards, and it was always "do they think the public option, or the build back backer, or whatever else is bad? Or are they just triangulating out of sheer terror?" And yup it's a lot of fear and fumbling and just incompetence.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Like my whole life it's just been wimping out my the cowards, and it was always "do they think the public option, or the build back backer, or whatever else is bad? Or are they just triangulating out of sheer terror?" And yup it's a lot of fear and fumbling and just incompetence.
Honestly I've been off this website for a while, only to coincidentally come back as this stuff was happening and yeah. I'm glad were not all helping each other stop being gaslit from these unforced errors. It was really hard in past years when we had an own-team emperor's new clothes problem.
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Honestly I've been off this website for a while, only to coincidentally come back as this stuff was happening and yeah. I'm glad were not all helping each other stop being gaslit from these unforced errors. It was really hard in past years when we had an own-team emperor's new clothes problem.
Promotion and Relegation, sorely lacking in both American sports and American politics.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Promotion and Relegation, sorely lacking in both American sports and American politics.
"is your Overton window anchored over your lifetime, the last decade or 2, or the last 12 months?"
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"is your Overton window anchored over your lifetime, the last decade or 2, or the last 12 months?"
Maybe it's time to make a "moderate" vs "centrist" distinction. Latter is about views, but the former is about temperament. Former assumes the status quo is centrist. Latter perhaps can see when the status quo isn't.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Maybe it's time to make a "moderate" vs "centrist" distinction. Latter is about views, but the former is about temperament. Former assumes the status quo is centrist. Latter perhaps can see when the status quo isn't.
Reposted by John Ericson
Last protest was No Kings. The next one is No Senators.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Last protest was No Kings. The next one is No Senators.
Reposted by John Ericson
(Although I did have a fun bicameral trip to Iceland a few years back where their head of parliament told us they briefly adopted that structure but quickly got rid of it because it didn't work. House members of the delegation cheered. Senators pouted. It was fun.)
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
(Although I did have a fun bicameral trip to Iceland a few years back where their head of parliament told us they briefly adopted that structure but quickly got rid of it because it didn't work. House members of the delegation cheered. Senators pouted. It was fun.)
Obvious that would be fantastic if the Republicans did that. Great...they can pass more unpopular shit now...
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Obvious that would be fantastic if the Republicans did that. Great...they can pass more unpopular shit now...
I'm just fishing for an explanation
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I'm just fishing for an explanation
Are they scared that the filibuster might actually be gotten rid of by the Republicans?
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Are they scared that the filibuster might actually be gotten rid of by the Republicans?
(Parentheses and any errors are all my work)
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
(Parentheses and any errors are all my work)
(Started with en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treasur... . I read this decades ago, but did not remember it, but the LLM told me where to find a crazy 19th century sentence)
Treasure Island (1883)/Chapter 1 - Wikisource, the free online library
en.wikisource.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
(Started with en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treasur... . I read this decades ago, but did not remember it, but the LLM told me where to find a crazy 19th century sentence)
... (and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted)))), I take up my pen in the year of grace 17—, and go back to (the time when (my father kept the "Admiral Benbow" inn), and (the brown old seaman, (with the sabre cut), first took up his lodging under our roof)).)
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
... (and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted)))), I take up my pen in the year of grace 17—, and go back to (the time when (my father kept the "Admiral Benbow" inn), and (the brown old seaman, (with the sabre cut), first took up his lodging under our roof)).)
((((Squire Trelawney), (Dr. Livesey), and (the rest of these gentlemen)) (having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, (from the beginning to the end), (keeping nothing back but (the bearings of the island), ...
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
((((Squire Trelawney), (Dr. Livesey), and (the rest of these gentlemen)) (having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, (from the beginning to the end), (keeping nothing back but (the bearings of the island), ...
I can google for CSE research (and figured you studied this), but I was asking about the analog about English class. I don't think I can google for that very easily, because I am unfamiliar non-CS education research, have no idea what terms it uses, and expect those terms to be very different.
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I can google for CSE research (and figured you studied this), but I was asking about the analog about English class. I don't think I can google for that very easily, because I am unfamiliar non-CS education research, have no idea what terms it uses, and expect those terms to be very different.
@shriram.bsky.social never mind computer science education, has doing this in class ever been studied? I would love deeply nested phrases in one class and deeply nested subexpressions in the other class to reinforce each other.
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
@shriram.bsky.social never mind computer science education, has doing this in class ever been studied? I would love deeply nested phrases in one class and deeply nested subexpressions in the other class to reinforce each other.
(We’re watching ((a new take on Frankenstein), (a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian), and (a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff)).)
Someday, everyone will be a lisp programmer and we'll finally fix natural language orthography with many, many more parentheses.
Someday, everyone will be a lisp programmer and we'll finally fix natural language orthography with many, many more parentheses.
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
(We’re watching ((a new take on Frankenstein), (a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian), and (a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff)).)
Someday, everyone will be a lisp programmer and we'll finally fix natural language orthography with many, many more parentheses.
Someday, everyone will be a lisp programmer and we'll finally fix natural language orthography with many, many more parentheses.
jwmason.org/slackwire/po... there absolutely exists DSA people who would like it to be legal to run a real political party. PR vs "OK we'll have an entrenched duopoly but heavily regulate it" are two forks in the road from the old smoky room system. We chose the wrong one, disastrously so.
Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason
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November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
jwmason.org/slackwire/po... there absolutely exists DSA people who would like it to be legal to run a real political party. PR vs "OK we'll have an entrenched duopoly but heavily regulate it" are two forks in the road from the old smoky room system. We chose the wrong one, disastrously so.
(Someday I will not constantly type "loose" when I mean "lose"... Yay English orthography changing the written vowel to change the spoken consonant, and getting also getting the secret implied vowel length exactly backwards.)
November 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
(Someday I will not constantly type "loose" when I mean "lose"... Yay English orthography changing the written vowel to change the spoken consonant, and getting also getting the secret implied vowel length exactly backwards.)